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54 Tuesday, Barge Loading Jet Fuel Blows Up; 1 Dead, 1 Missing DELAWARE CITY, Del. (AP) A barge taking on thousands of gallons of jet fuel blew up and burned yesterday in a Delaware River channel. Authorities said at least one person was killed and another was missing. THE BARGE, apparently blasted from a Getty Oil Co. refinery dock, came to rest and broke in two on a mid-channel sand bar more than 500 yards away, spurting flaming streamers of jet fuel.

A thick pillar of black smoke was visible 20 miles away. Flames poked up from a burning oil slick. The dead man, the missing man and a man brought to a hospital and released were employed by Interstate Ocean Transport Co. of Philadelphia, which owned both the barge Interstate 19 and its tug. JOHN NAWCOMB, an Interstate spokesman, said the injured man was taken to St.

Francis Hospital in Wilmington because he suffered from a heart condition. The man was released in satisfactory condition, Nawcomb said. Franklin J. Parisi, a Getty spokesman, said 9,000 to 10,000 barrels of JP4 jet fuel had been loaded when the explosion occurred around 12:10 p.m. One rusty green piece of the barge was blown 90 yards from the pier toward the refinery.

Much of the pier was blown to bits. NAWCOMB SAID the barge was to have taken the jet fuel to Port Mahon, for use at Dover Air Force Base. None of the victims was identified. Parisi said, "They could have been on the pier, they could have been on the barge or they could! have been on the tug." Parisi said, "There are a dozen different ways" the blast could have been set off. State police said 25 fire units were called to the refinery, just south of Wilmington near the mouth of the Delaware River.

Trevecca College Receives $5,000 Humanities Grant Trevecca Nazarene College has received a consultant grant of $5,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant is to be used to assist the college in developing a new general education curriculum integrating liberal arts, career education and Christian values. Work on the project is under way, and the grant will make possible consultation services from Robert E. Karsten, vice president for academic administration and dean of the college at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.

3 Degree Programs Approved for APSU CLARKSVILLE The Tennessee Higher Education Commission has approved three new degree programs for Austin Peay State University, college officials announced yesterday. Scheduled to begin in September are a master's degree in business administration and bachelor's degrees in management and in social welfare. The programs were approved by the State Board of Regents in December 1977 and sent to the Higher Education Commission for approval. Coy B. Richardson SCOTTSVILLE, Ky.

Services for Coy Burton Richardson, 81, of Indianapolis, a former Scottsville feed store employee, will be at 2 p.m. today at Tom Crow and Son Funeral Home. Burial will be in Crescent Hill Cemetery. Richardson died Saturday in Witchard Hospital, Indianapolis. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.

Ruby Meador, Scottsville, and Mrs. Arid Melver, Louisville, and a brother, Carline Richardson, Indianapolis. March 21, 1978 Pennies for Republicans BUTTE, Mont. (AP) Former state Rep. Robert Harper, a Butte Democrat, can't understand how he got on the Republican National Committee's mailing list.

But he returned the committee's survey anyway and added, a donation. Harper taped 25 pennies to the questionnaire and returned i it in the business reply envelope. He said U.S. Postal Service told him the Republicans would have to pay 58 cents postage to get the four ounces of pennies. Harper said he would have put a lead bar in the envelope if it would have fit.

Walter Vaughn Sr. Dies Following Illness Walter H. Vaughn 80, 324 Pullen died I yesterday morning in Trevecca Health Care Center after an extended illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Eastland Funeral Home.

Joe E. Sanders will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. Vaughn served in the United States Navy in France in World War I. He worked for Jamison Bedding Co.

for more than 60 years before his retirement, and was a deacon at Lischey Avenue Church of Christ. Survivors include his widow, Bennie Lee Vaughn; two sons, Walter H. Vaughn Houston, and Leonard L. Vaughn, Lebanon, two brothers, Clarence Orville Vaughn, Nashville; a sister, Mrs. Robert Tant, Nashville; a daughter; and two laughters.

Kentucky Legislature Kills Laetrile Measure FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP). The Kentucky legislature killed a bill early Sunday that would have legalized the use of Laetrile in the state. The Senate voted shortly after midnight the session's constitutionally imposed deadline to conclude its business while a conference committee was trying to resolve differences between Senate and House versions of a bill carrying a Laetrile legalization amendment. Laetrile is found naturally in the pits of apricots and peaches and in bitter almonds.

Some claim it is a cure for cancer while others it is worthless. The FDA has banned Laetrile from interstate transportation, but 14 states have approved its use within their boundaries. Joe M. Spann SPARTA, Tenn. Services for Joe Marshall Spann, 48, of Sparta, an employee of the state Highway Department, will be at 2 p.m.

today at Thurman Funeral Home. Burial will be in Rose Cemetery here. Spann died Sunday in White County Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Pauline Maynard Spann; three stepsons, Edward, Johnny and Carol Vinson, Sparta; stepdaughters, Misses Janice and 'Shelia Vinson, Sparta; three sisters, Mrs.

Geneva Scott and Mrs. Hamilton, Nashville, and Mrs. Hazel Bishop, Burns, and three stepgrandchildren. Lawrence W. Robertson WOODBURY, Tenn.

Services for Lawrence Waldon Robertson, 64, of a retired Woodbury resident, will be at 2:30 p.m. today at Woodbury Funeral Home. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery here. Robertson died Saturday in Wayne County General Hospital, Eloise, Mich. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Virginia Robertson, Taylor, a daughter, Miss Nan Robertson, Taylor; a brother, John M. Wayne, and four sisters, Mrs. Dot Nowak and Vaught, Wayne, Mrs. Sarah Edwards, Jackson, and Mrs. Golda Davis, Manchester, Tenn.

Mrs. Iva Thorpe SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. Mrs. Iva Mae Roark Thorpe, 85, of Springfield, died yesterday in Jesse Holman Jones Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at Associated Funeral Home. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Survivors include her husband, Joe W. Thorpe; a son, Joe Thorpe Franklin, two daughters, Mrs. James Marshall, Nashville, and Mrs.

Bobby Hendley, Springfield, 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Most State Planting Delayed By NAT CALDWELL The first weekly report of Tennessee soil and crop conditions yesterday showed snow and very wet weather has delayed most planting seasons by three weeks. Seeding of tobacco plant beds, corn, feed grains and even new pasture may be even further behind, according the Tennessee Crop Reporting Service. That agency began its spring weekly reports yesterday, more than one week behind normal. BUT STATISTICIANS for the state-federal agency said yesterday that, as for as demonstrating, anything conclusive about the amount and success of planting, they could easily have put off the date of the first report by at least another two weeks.

Robert Hobson, chief statistician for the service, said yesterday that the weekly reports will continue because they have been started. But he predicted a wait until April 16, farmers, Wilson To Cut LOCAL UNION 2510 UNITED MINE WORKERS AMERICA Strike Ripples Businessman Gets Suspended Term On Tax Charge ROSLYN, -Retired miner Ernie Fera, 76, stands before souver. nirs of mining here. He started working the coal mines when he was 16 and the one-time secretary of United Mine Workers local 2510 says "'You can't make anybody work unless he wants to." Doyel Harrell MURFREESBORO Services for Doyel Harrell, 66, of Readyville, a retired employee of the Rutherford Creamery, will be at 2 p.m. today at Murfreesboro Funeral Chapel.

Burial will be in Coleman Cemetery. Harrell died Sunday in Good Samaritan Hospital, Woodbury, Tenn. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lorene Bradford Harrell; three brothers, Robert, Ellis and Leburn Harrell, Murfreesboro; three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Mae McDougle and Mrs.

Gladys Reckley, Nashville. Murfreesboro, and Mrs. Lucille Bradford, Mrs. Wilma Nell Craig Home. Burial will be in John Lay Ceme- ETHRIDGE, Tenn.

Services for Mrs. Wilma Nell Craig, 38, of Ethridge, will be at 10 a.m. today at Lay Funeral tery. Mrs. Craig died Sunday at her home following an illness.

Survivors include her husband, Gene Craig; a daughter, Miss Shelia Lynn Craig, Ethridge; three brothers, Norman, Decatur, Sammy, Ethridge, and Tommy Wright, Lawrenceburg; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cauley Wright, Ethridge, and a grandmother, Mrs. Homer Ingram, Ethridge. Joe Grimes CHARLOTTE, Tenn.

Joe Grimes, 72, of Charlotte, a retired employee of Remington Rand died yesterday in St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Dickson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mount Hebron Cemetery near here.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Nannie Daniel Grimes; a daughter, Mrs. Marian Harris, Laurel, a sister, Mrs. Mary Nicks, Charlotte, and five grandsons. William P.

Purdue PORTLAND, Tenn. Services for William Paul Purdue, 81, of Portland, a retired farmer, will be at 11 a.m. today at Wilkinson and Wiseman Funeral Home. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery. Purdue died Sunday at his home.

Survivors include a brother, Roy Purdue, Portland, and three sisters, Mrs. Dixie Bell Fleming, Mrs. Ovie Stewart and Mrs. Vergie Wims, Franklin, Ky. Mrs.

Billie Holt DICKSON Services for Mrs. Billie Holt, 72, of 2132 1 Buena Vista Pike, Nashville, a retired nurse's aide, will be at 2 p.m. today at Taylor Funeral Home here. Burial will be in Union Cemetery. Mrs.

Holt died Sunday at her home. There were no immediate survivors. A Nashville businessman received a one-year suspended sentence and 20 days in jail Thursday in, federal court for failing to file his 1974 income tax return, officials said. An Internal Revenue Service spokeswoman said Robert Fenner Jackson III, 46, president of Service Insurance Agency pleaded guilty to one count of a three-count indictment for willful failure to file his 1974 income tax returnon a gross income of $32,984. THE OTHER COUNTS against Jackson, of 4416 Harding Place, were dropped, said spokeswoman Eve Miller.

U.S. District Court Judge L. Clure Morton sentenced Jackson to serve 20 days in jail on weekends. He will enter jail at 6 p.m. Friday afternoons and remain until 6 p.m.

Sun- day, Morton said, until the 20 days are served. Ellis R. Victory -AP Laserphoto CENTERVILLE, Tenn. Services for Ellis Robert Victory, 65, of Lyles, a retired laborer, will be at 2 p.m. today at Little Rock Church of Christ.

Burial will be in Little Rock Ceme- tery. Victory died Sunday at his home following an apparent heart attack. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Pearl Powell Victory; three sons, Billy Ray, Ted Harold and Roy Victory, Lyles; four daughters, Mrs. Norma Sue Davidson, Burns, Mrs.

Opal Tidwell, Nunnelly, and Mrs. Velma Lawsonand Mrs. Annie Laura Plunkett, Centerville; two brothers, Burl, Sydney, Ohio, and Henry Victory, Lyles; a sister, Mrs. Lessie Parker, Nunnelly; a half brother, John Victory, Spring Hill, 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Mrs.

Peekie Robnett HOHENWALD, Tenn. Services for Mrs. Peekie Nichols Robnett, 90, of Hohenwald, will be at 10 a.m. today at McDonald Funeral Home. Additional services at the graveside will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashville, at 1 p.m.

today. Mrs. Robnett died Sunday in Maury County Hospital, Columbia, Tenn. Survivors include a son, Burton N. Robnett, Hohenwald; four grandsons and six great-grandchildren.

Adult Continuing Education Conference May Draw Over 1,000 More than 1,000 persons involved in adult continuing education are expected to meet here in May for a conference involving representatives of 10 Southern states. Based on the theme "Access to Excellence," the conference includes sessions on approximately 150 topics related to adult and continuing education. THE conference, sponsored by the National Association for Public Continuing and Adult Education, will be addressed by keynote speaker Rep. John Buchanan, and others. It is scheduled from May 19-21, with sessions to be held at the Hyatt Regency and Hume-Fogg High School.

Squires to 25 from federal revenue hydrant at Tuckers to enter into a contract of Engineers in which Sheriff's Department tions on Old Hickory sharing funds for a fire Crossroads School, and voted with the U.S. Army Corps the Rutherford County would patrol county secand Percy Priest lakes. LEBANON The Wilson County Quarterly Court voted yesterday to reduce its membership from 50 to 25 magistrates. However, the court voted to retain the present 25 districts. UNDER THE plan, introduced by Squire George Harding, one magistrate will be elected from each of the districts instead of two as in the past.

An amendment by Squire Louis Chambers to reduce the number of districts to 12 and elect two magistrates from each district failed by a voted of 46 to 3. The court had reapportioned in January, but had retained its 50 members. The action yesterday was mandated by the adoption March 7 of the state constitutional article on local governments, limiting county courts to a maximum of 25 members. All squires come up for re-election in August. IN OTHER ACTION, the court re-elected County Attorney Robert Rochelle and raised his salary from $10,000 to $12,000 a year.

Chambers and magistrates Ernest Cotten and Joe Shanks raised objections to the salary increase, but Shanks' motion to table the measure failed 37-12. Rochelle's remains at two years. He assists all county court committees and is not compensated for office expenses or secretarial help. The court also reapportioned its four road and five school zones, re-elected Albert Turner, W.C. Alsup, Thelma Edwards and Charles Stewart to the board of equalization, transferred $1,000 Mrs.

Frye's Rites Set Tomorrow MEMPHIS-Services for Mrs. Patricia Ann Gooch Frye, 35, a Memphis schoolteacher formerly of Nashville, will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Union Valley Baptist Church. The Rev. H.O.

Kneeland Jr. will officiate, and the body will lie in state for three hours preceding the funeral. Burial will be Thursday in Galilee Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Frye died Sunday at her home following an apparent stroke.

The body is at N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home. A native of Nashville, she was the daughter of Clifton Gooch Sr. of Chicago and the late Mrs. Gooch.

She was graduated from Pearl High School and Tennessee State University and formerly taught at Rose Park Junior High in Nashville. Survivors in addition to her father include her husband, Roy Frye son, Darryl Frye, and a daughter, Sharon Frye, all of Memphis; two sisters, Miss Mary Gooch, Houston, and Mrs. Yvonne Smith, Nashville; two brothers, James Gooch, Memphis, and Clifton Gooch, Nashville, and stepfather, John Edwards, Nashville. Carl O. Moore DICKSON Services for Carl 0.

Moore, 65, of Dickson, a retired employee of Chrysler Corp. in Michigan, will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Dickson Funeral Burial in Fielder Cemetery. Moore died Sunday at the home of a sister. Survivors include a son, Robert Wayne Moore, Hawaii; two daughters, Mrs.

Peggy Marschner, El Paso, and Mrs. Rosa Golden, Santa Rosa, a brother, Virgil R. Moore, Dickson; three sisters, Mrs. Stella Potter, Mrs. Bertie Harris and Mrs.

Jewel Harris, Dickson, and three grandchildren. Mrs. Lena Givens Mrs. Lena Brashear Givens, 85, of Springfield, a retired medical receptionist, died yesterday in Jesse Holman Jones Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.

tomorrow at First United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The body is at Associated Funeral Home. Survivors include six daughters, Mrs. Ruth Cambliss, Goodlettsville, Mrs.

Grace Dorris, Norcross, Mrs. Elizabeth Folsom, Nashville, Mrs. Claudia Anderson, Wahoo Miss Johnnie Givens, Tucker, and Mrs. Everett Katherine Yates, Monteagle, and Miss Esther Brashear, Pelham, and five grandchildren. SPRINGFIELD, Tenn.

TAVALIN, Mr. Donald Tavalin- March 19, 1978 at a local infirmary. Survived by wife, Mrs. Jo Ann three sons, Jules Ronald, Michael Harold and Gary Wayne Tavalin, all of Nashville; mother, Mrs. Norma Tavalin, Nashville; two brothers, Jan Michael Tavalin New Hampshire and Kenneth D.

Tavalin, California. Funeral services will be held 10:30 am Wednesday at the Temple on Harding Rd. conducted by Rabbi Randall M. Falk and Rabbi Jan Brahms. Pallbearers, Mark Herman, Rom Clark, Raymond Zim-' mermann, Howard Levy, Stuart Kresge, Paul DuBois.

Memorials may be made to the Rabbi's Discretionary Fund in care of the Temple for the Donald T. Tavalin Scholarship Fund. FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Interment Temple Cemetery.

MARSHALL DONNELLY COMBS, 327-1111. Lafayette, Tn WEST, Jessie WilliamAge 75, passed away Monday morning March 20, 1978 at Macon County General Hospital. Survived by wife, Bertha West; one son, Carlis E. West, of Old Hickory; one brother, Hooper West, of Hendersonville; three Robert C. Duncan a retired employee of B.F.

Goodrich Co. in Akron, Ohio, died yesterday in Obion County General Hospital, Union City. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at McDonald Funeral Home. Burial will be in Akron.

LOBELVILLE, Tenn. Robert Chester Duncan, 81, of Union City, Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jordan, Kenton, a son, Robert Allen Duncan, Akron; three brothers, Will and Fred, Lobelville, and Joe Duncan, Akron, and five sisters, Mrs. Dorothy, Greve, Velma Linden, Mrs. DePriest and Mrs.

Louisa Heath, Lobelville, Mrs. Opal Carter, Old Hickory, and Mrs. Lillian Beebe, Umatilla, Fla. Death Notices VAUGHN, Walter Monday March 20, 1978. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Bennie Lee Vaughn of Nashville; two sons, Walter H. Vaughn, Houston, Texas, Leonard L. Vaughn, Lebanon, one granddaughter, Mrs. James Boswell and two great grandchildren, all of Nashville. Two brothers, Clarence and Orville Vaughn of Nashville; one sister Mrs.

Bob Tant of Nashville. Remains are at the Eastland Chapel, 904 Gallatin Rd. where services will be conducted Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. with Bro. Joe E.

Sanders officiating. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. Active pallbearers, Jerry Primm, Tommy Johnston, Lloyd Van Hook, Claude Dunn, Howard Van Hook and Buford McWright. Honorary Pallbearers, Mosier Boswell, Alva Tate, Harby Ray, Bobby Evans, Elders and Deacons of Northside Church of Christ. ROESCH PATTON DORRIS CHARLTON, Eastland Chapel, 904 Gallatin Rd.

227- 4424. Ridgetop, Tenn THOMASON, Mrs. Sue Hallum-Age 49 years. Sunday evening March 19, 1978 at Madison Hospital. Survived by daughters; Mrs.

Glenn Permenter of Memphis. Mrs. Thomas White, Chattanooga. Mrs. John Hutchins, Cleveland, Tn.

Mrs. Ronnie Sallee. Sons; Victor L. Bryant, Tony Wayne Thomason all of Ridgetop. Eight grandchildren.

Sisters; Mrs. Louise Arterburn, Goodlettsville. Mrs. Anna Driver, Green Brier. Mrs.

Lena Cole. Brothers; Bill Hallum, Ernest Hallum, all of. Goodlettsville. Dean Hallum, Ridgetop. Remains are at the Cole Garrett Funeral Home, Goodlettsvile.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 1 O'clock United Penecostal Church, Dickerson Goodlettsville by Rev. Ray Carson. Pallbearers will be her nephews. Interment Forest Lawn Cemetery COLE GARRETT, Goodlettsville sisters, Mrs. Virgie Long, of Nashville, Mrs.

Ollie Andrews, of fayette and Mrs. Lena: Pearl Smalling of Kentucky; three grandchildren, Ricky E. West; Barry W. West, and" Myglia Ann Tucker, all of Old Hickory. Remains are at the Alexander Fu-.

neral Home in Lafayette. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday March 22, 1978 at 1 P.M. in the funeral home chapel by Elder Ted Smith. Interment Macon County Memorial Gardens. ALEXANDER FUNER-: AL HOME, in Lafayette, in charge of arrangements.

Charlotte, Tn COLLIER, Willie Char-Age 81, born September 23, 1896, passed away Sunday March 19 at 1:15 a.m. at Dickson General Hospital. Survived by wife, Creola Collier; one brother, Youlish Collier, of Charlotte, two devoted nephews, L.C. Collier, Jr. of Charlotte, Tenn.

and Lewis Collier of Detroit, one devoted niece, Alice Teasley Col-: lier of Nashville; other nieces and nephews and devoted friends; three brothers in law, Nelson Jones of Nashville, Elmer Jones of Char-. lotte, Tenn. and Lester Williams of New York; three sisters in law, Jessie Jones of Nashville, Lucie Jones of New York and Mamie Collier of, Charlotte, Tenn. Remains will be conveyed to Mt. Zion AME Church of Charlotte, Tenn.

Tuesday March 21 from 6 to 10 p.m. Funeral Wednesday March 22 at 11 a.m. from the above church conducted by his pastor Rev. G.E. Mobley.

Flowerladies, nieces. Pallbearers, nephews and stewards. Interment Mt. Zion Cemetery, Charlotte, Tenn. WRIGHT'S FUNERAL HOME, in charge.

W.H. Wright, Director. 255- 8735. Charlotte Papers Please Copy. SANDERS, Mrs.

Joyce -Entered into. rest, Monday afternoon, March 20, 1978 at a local hospital. Survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gloria Whittaker, Mrs. Annette Thomas, and Ms.

Vivian Sanders, all of Nashville; four sons, Mr. Marion Sanders, Mr. Samuel Sanders, Mr. Michael Sanders and Mr. Anthony Sanders, all of Nashville; two brothers; seven grandchildren; two sons in law; a host of other relatives and friends.

Complete arrangements will be announced later. K. GARDNER SONS, Directors. can tell much about what their neighbors are doing in Tennessee and its surrounding states. A Robertson County farmer, who is a large dairymen, said yesterday that "whatever other grain buyers have believed, we have expected our farmer friends to cut down their grain production sharply." "THEY HAVE DONE exactly that and it doesn't make much difference whether they were motivated by pledges to other grain farmers or simply responding to the most severe weather conditions in many years for Middle and West Tennessee.

"It so happens that they can't plant now," he said, "even if they were already financed and wanted to. I know that I was able to buy crushed corn last winter in ton lots for $77 and $78 a ton. Now I'm compelled to pay $100 a ton and the price goes up nearly every day." The dairyman said that already the price structure is following upward the sharp reductions in early HORTON, Roscoe- -Sunday, March 19, 1978, in Athens, Ala. Survived by wife, Mrs. Ora Horton, Athens, daughters, Mrs.

Thelma Murray and Mrs. Gladys Fitzgerald, Nashville; son, Clyde Horton, Chicago; sons in law, Milton Murray and James Fitzgerald, Nashville, and other relatives and 'friends. Funeral, Wednesday, March 22, 1978, a 1 PM at Lucas St. Church of Christ, In lieu of flowers, friends desiring may send contributions to the Youth Hobby Shop, P.O. Box 7313, Nashville, Tenn.

37210. Courtesy J.W. ADKINS..